The University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Student, English

Thesis Title: "Detachable Futures: Temporality, Poetry, and Religion in Enlightenment England"

About

I'm a PhD candidate with research interests in British verse, religion, and culture from Milton to early romanticism. My dissertation examines poetic and theological futurities that were framed by early-eighteenth-century debates about heterodox materialism. So far the inquiry has led to articles on Elizabeth Singer Rowe and embodiment (forthcoming) and on Mark Akenside, allegory, and aesthetics. A paper on _Paradise Regain'd_ and Socinian time is in the works at present. Other published projects include an article on St Paul, empire, and Romantic epistolarity (forthcoming); and another on the poetry and criticism of Thomas Merton. 

While at UT-Austin I have taught undergraduate courses in writing, a special-topics class on the rhetoric of religious dissent (from John Bunyan to Christopher Hitchens), and a survey of British poetry. The latter two were affiliated with the Digital Writing and Research Lab (see link at left).